September Issue 2001
The Columbia Museum Of Art in Columbia, SC, Features Works by Carl Blair
From Sept. 15 through Dec. 2 the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, SC, will present an exhibition of Greenville artist, Carl Blair's abstracted landscapes. Carl L. Blair: The Patterned Landscape is a striking group of nearly 30 oil paintings and monotypes that all employ a format explored by the artist over several decades. These landscapes are all seen from an elevated viewpoint, with a high horizon line and the earth delineated by a grid pattern that implies cultivated fields. The exhibition is installed in three sections in the museum's Focus Galleries - paintings on canvas and board, paintings on paper, and monotypes.
In contrast to his vibrant and colorful paintings, Blair's monotypes present the same expressive technique, but use monochromatic dark and light values to achieve the essence of the landscape. Included in the exhibition are two oil paintings, Spring Squall and Bands of October which were shown in the mid-1990s in the American Embassies in Mauritania, Africa and Cairo, Egypt under the sponsorship of the US Department of State.
Born in Atchison, Kansas and now retired after forty-one years on the art faculty of Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC, Blair has a long history of exhibitions and awards. He uses nature as a point of departure in his work and says. "Enjoyment of beauty involves not only the eyes but the emotions of the heart. They must be balanced with the viewer's intellect and spirit."
For more info check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call 803/799-2810 and on the web at (http://www.columbiamuseum.org).
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